The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-10-08
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giant new wall papers.
A RUBBER sole, for ladies' shoes, remova-
bio at pleasure, is out.
"WREN's EGGS" Is the name Of tender
new tint for society frocks.
NJ PAsTEUR, the hydrophobia specialist,
has been decorated a baron.
WEEKLY payment of wages is now re-
Quircd by law in Connecticut
IRoN Stag is used by some Allegheny
(Pa.) manufacturers to make bricks.
NORTHWESTERN Pennsylvania expects to
have the largest plate-glass works in tho
world.
The grave of Benjamin Franklin in
Philadelphia is in a much neglected con-
dition.
FRANK JAMES, the ex-bandit, is to become
salesman for an Atlanta (Ga.) dry goods
house.
A SON of Jesse James sued Kansas
City brewery for being run over by its
wagon.
A READING (Pa.) fruit farmer has
picked fourteen tons of grapes to make
vinegar of.
THE construction of thirty-four railroads
has been started in Japan within the past
six months.
A JOURNAL has been started in Paris
which is devoted to the proper toilet Of
poodle dogs.
ITALIANS are engaged in making cheese
out of tomato pulp at a Burlington IN. J.)
canning house.
FIVE hundred and fifty tons is the weight
of the gold held in the vaults OF the United
States Treasury.
THE apple crop in New England this sea-
aOn 10 exnpctpd IN he ahout three fOurthq
OF an average one.
A DEVICE for utilizing the power of Mia
CARA river has been sold in two counties
bordering the river for $62, 800.
Iowa statistics show that 953 women own
farms in that State. OF the number only
eighteen are carrying mortgages.
The largest elevator in the world is to
be built on Goose island, Chicago The di-
mensions will be 475x25O, and 225 feet high.
LAST year Pennsylvania produced 73.0OO,-
600 tons Of coal, valued at sos, ,00O0O0 This
exceeds the value of gold and silver mined.
The contract for the Ohio monument to
General William Henry Harrison has been
awarded to Lous T. Rebisso, at the price
of $4,000.
DURING the last fiscal year the Govern
ment disposed of 25, III, 400 acres of public
land, the largest amount Of any year ex-
cepting 1884.
A NEW railroad is to be built in equatorial
Africa crossing the continent from Loan
da, Lower Guinea, to some Portuguese port
in Mozambique.
1T is reported that the missionaries in
the Congo region have discovered that a
beverage made of bananas is preventive
of malarial fever.
A LITTLE Michigan girl has without as
sistance picked and mounted on cards and
exhibited at church fair 2,125 specimens
of four-leaf clover.
The ruling profession of the far west is
evidently real estate. In one small town
Of a population of 5000 there are twenty
five real estate brokers.
FoRTY-Two acres of land near Omaha, that
he bought twenty-one years ago for 5000,
are about to be sold by Westminster
(Md.) clergyman for 100000.
Mrs. MAGGIE VAN CoTT, who is said to
have converted more than $4,000 people in
the West, is now waging an unequal con-
dict with the sinners of New York
ONE Of the Georgia judges has pro-
claimed his intention of sending to the
chain gang any person convicted before
him Of carrying concealed weapons.
The conductor of the ill-fated Chatts-
worth train has fallen off forty-five pounds
since the disaster The conductor is in no
way to blame for that fearful sacrifice of
human life.
THE fastest time ever made by any ship
or boat, according to scientific journal,
was twenty-eight miles per hour, this be-
ing the performance of an Italian twin
screw torpedo boat.
GOVERNOR RICHARDSON, Of South Caro-
lima, says that while in Philadelphia he
was greatly annoyed by the question
"'What did the Governor of North Caro-.
lima say to you just now2"
BETWEEN seventy-tive and 100 young
ladies OF Atlanta, Ga, and vicinity have
agreed to form mounted escort to Presi
dent Cleveland and lady on the occasion
of their visit to the Piedmont fair.
THE struggle in Ireland between the po
ce and the peasants is taking some of the
.orms Of civil war. The tearing up ot
railroads, to prevent the rapid transpor
tation of the police, is decidedly warlike.
SAMUEL j. TILDEN was attended sever
years and eleven months, and about every
day of that time, by DR.. Charles E. Sim
minis, of New York. The Doctor has moi
yet been paid. The bill is said to be
Sl430cO
Mrs. CLEVELAND says she will not again
have her photograph taken as long as she
Is mistress of the White House. She il
offended at the use to which her portrait
has been put in advertising cigarettes and
chewing tobacco.
STEAMED oysters are recommended by
physicians as the most wholesome Blu,
ordinary restaurant fried oysters, dry and
leathery, and eutombed in a mass of indi
gcstiblc batter, are sanitary men. 60
aud should be snubbed.
GENERAL JUAN N. CoRTILLA, o prof, s
sional Mexican revolutionist, has be, I
pardoned by President Diaz, after an in.
prisonment of eleven years. He once
crossed over the Rio Grande and captured
tho town OF Brownsville, Tex.
Tue revenue cutter Bear, on duty in
Alaskan waters, has rescued from an In
dian village, near Naturin, sailor named
Vincent, who is the sole survivor of the
crew Of the whaler Napoleon, lost three
years ago. His condition is described as
most pitiable.
The recent session Of the American For.
estry Congress at Springfield, ILL.,, was at,
tended by delegates from all parts of tho
North and West and from Canada. The
meeting was one Of the most interesting
yet held, and will produce excellent re-
suits. The next session will be held In
Atlanta, Ga.
WE still lead the world in invention.